Optical Bay to Hard Drive Enclosures

Haven't used that internal optical drive in a while? A simple way to increase your computer's storage capacity is to change out the optical drive for a hard drive or SSD. You can't plug a hard drive directly into the optical drive bay, but with the help of iFixit Dual Drive Enclosures you can! Need more space? Put in a massive 1 TB drive. Tired of waiting for programs to load? Add a blazing-fast SSD. Keep forgetting to plug in your backup drive? Have an always-connected backup solution.

Use this page to find the correct enclosure for your laptop or computer.

Good news: we have a solution for many different machines. Bad news: you'll have to choose the right product, depending on the machine you have. But no fret, we made things simple!

You can either ID Your Mac and figure out which model you have, or you can figure out the answers to these three questions:

Our most popular dual drive upgrade kit works in all Unibody MacBooks and Unibody MacBook Pros. It doesn't work with the MacBook Air or MacBook Pro Retina, since they don't have optical drives that can be replaced.